Dan Sanders, Vice President for Front Range Energy LLC, said, “We are excited to own and operate this new technology from ICM. Our team did an excellent job evaluating options available in this space and we believe ICM’s SMT™ gives us the greatest potential for overall yield improvements, and the most control to make operational changes on the front end of our plant to enable lower cost per gallon production.”Chris Mitchell, President of ICM, Inc., said, “SMT™ continues to prove itself as the long term solution of choice for plant yield enhancement, and ICM is pleased to continue our partnership with Front Range Energy, a leading supplier of fuel ethanol to the Rocky Mountain transportation fuel market.”

With the agreement for purchase and full-scale installation at Front Range Energy, there are now seventeen ethanol plants in North America either operating or under contract to operate ICM’s Selective Milling Technology™, raising total throughput for ICM and its partner in this yield enhancement technology, Fluid Quip Process Technologies, to over 1.65 billion gallons of ethanol production per year.

David VanderGriend, founder and CEO of ICM, Inc., said, “ICM is happy to see more customers take advantage of the benefits that SMT™ provides. SMT™ is not only the first step toward our Fiber Separation Technology™ and Generation 1.5™ Technology, but has also proven itself to the point that it is now considered standard equipment in every new build we’re doing internationally. We appreciate the confidence in us expressed by the Prairie Horizon management team with its purchase of this technology from ICM, and are excited to continue working with Prairie Horizon on its goal to be a leading company in the renewable energy technology space.”

Mike Erhart, General Manager for Prairie Horizon Agri-Energy LLC, said, “ICM continues to impress us with its passion to invest in the industry and help us improve. We are excited to get the SMT™ System up and running not just because of its proven ability to increase plant yields, but also because of the opportunities it provides us to continue down the path of being a low-cost producer.”

With the agreement for purchase and full-scale installation at Prairie Horizon Agri-Energy, there are now sixteen ethanol plants in North America either running or under contract to run ICM’s Selective Milling Technology™. That raises the total throughput for ICM and its partner in this yield enhancement technology, Fluid Quip Process Technologies, to more than 1.6 billion gallons of ethanol production per year.

Tom Ranallo, Vice President of Operations for ICM, Inc., said, “SMT™ is providing our customers, and the industry, with a new standard for ethanol yields, oil recovery yields, and overall plant efficiencies. We are excited to continue our relationship with Pacific Ethanol, Inc, and look forward to partnering with them to help realize their performance goals.”

Neil Koehler, Pacific Ethanol, Inc. president and CEO, stated, “We are committed to increasing our product yields, diversifying our revenue streams and improving profitability. We began commercial corn oil production with an ICM-designed system at our Magic Valley plant in mid-2013. SMT complements these operations by increasing both corn oil and ethanol yields and positions our Magic Valley plant for the potential future production of advanced biofuels that builds upon the SMT platform.”

With the agreement for purchase and full-scale installation at Pacific Ethanol Magic Valley, there are now fifteen ethanol plants in North America either running or under contract to run ICM’s Selective Milling Technology™, raising total throughput for ICM and its partner in this yield enhancement technology, Fluid Quip Process Technologies, to over 1,500,000,000 gallons of ethanol production per year.

Chris Mitchell, president of ICM, Inc., said, “ICM is very pleased to continue offering SMT™ as a yield enhancement solution for our ethanol plant customers. SMT™ is ICM’s platform technology to our proprietary Fiber Separation Technology™ and Generation 1.5™ Technology. We appreciate the opportunity to work with Louis Dreyfus Commodities, a global merchandiser of commodities and processor of agricultural goods.”

Bruce R. Chapin, Vice President – Chief Operating Officer, North American Region, said, “Our ethanol plants are both located in areas of high feedstock production and we are committed to responsibly investing in these assets to give them further strategic advantages in the industry. We are excited to choose Selective Milling Technology™ as a value-added technology not only because of its proven ability to increase ethanol and oil recovery yields, but also because of the potential we see with ICM’s line of sight that builds upon the SMT™ platform.”